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Clumps of dark matter may actually be interacting with light just a teensy bit, enough to dim the light of stars it passes in front of.

Astronomers Suggest That Entire Stars Are Being Obscured by Giant “Lampshades” of Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

The mysterious dark matter "bridge" found inside the Perseus cluster could reveal key details about the cluster's evolution.

Scientists Intrigued by Bridge of Dark Matter Inside Huge Galaxy Cluster

By Frank Landymore

Scientists want to build a new type of detector they liken to a "cosmic car radio," that could listen to what the dark matter is saying.

Scientists Say Dark Matter May Be Giving Off a Signal

By Victor Tangermann

Recent research proposes a new form of dark matter that may actually be lighter in mass than other dark matter candidates.

Scientists Find Evidence of a New Form of Dark Matter Swirling at Center of Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Their mapping of dark matter confirms the discrepancies between observations of the universe's structures and our theoretical models of them.

Scientists Analyzing Deep Space “Forest” to Map Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Researchers suggest we should hunt for an ultralight dark matter candidate in the Earth's ionosphere, a "long shot."

The Earth May Be Swimming Through Dark Matter, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A controversial new paper suggests the universe is twice as old as current models suggest and that dark matter doesn't exist.

New Paper Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist at All

By Victor Tangermann

Does dark matter reside in a deformed mirror universe of our own, where rules are different and atoms failed to form?

Dark Matter May Be a Deformed Mirror Universe, Scientists Say

By Jon Christian

Chinese scientists have opened the deepest and largest underground lab in the world to study dark matter particles.

China Opens Huge Underground Dark Matter Lab

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has chimed in and has decreed that the universe is "possibly" twice as old as we think it is. Make of that what you will.

Elon Musk Says Universe May Be Twice as Old as We Think, Dark Matter Seems “Sketch”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe they've spotted three objects known as dark stars originating just hundreds of years after the Big Bang.

James Webb Appears to Have Spotted Weird Stars Powered by Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Scientists in Europe are gearing up for the much-anticipated launch of Euclid, a telescope designed to track dark matter.

Europe Is About to Launch a Dark Matter-Hunting Spacecraft

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

By observing companion stars orbiting black holes, scientists may have gathered indirect proof that black holes accrete massive clumps of dark matter.

Black Holes May Be Engulfed In Dark Matter, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

There may be planets made up of dark matter with their own bizarre physics, a group of scientist argue in a new study: and they might know how to find them.

Physicists Say There May Be Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at Nagoya University have discovered dark matter from 12 billion years ago, making it the earliest observation of the substance to date

Scientists Just Detected the Oldest Dark Matter Ever Observed

By Frank Landymore

A physicist from the UK named Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that dark matter might be information itself.

Scientist Says That Dark Matter May Be Information Itself

By Jon Christian